NEW ORLEANS – The Sun Belt Conference and ESPN announced today that all games from the conference’s upcoming baseball and softball championships will be available exclusively on the network’s newest platform – ESPN+.
The Sun Belt recently announced a longterm multimedia rights deal with ESPN that will see the two partnered exclusively until 2028. As part of the deal, ESPN+ will be the home for hundreds of Sun Belt contests each year. The softball and baseball championships will be the first Sun Belt championship events for viewing on ESPN+.
ESPN+ will offer fans a lineup of live sports, original content and a library of award-winning on-demand programming – all for a subscription price of $4.99 per month. ESPN+ will be an integrated part of a completely redesigned and reimagined ESPN App that will be the premier all-in-one digital sports platform for fans. ESPN+ will also be available through ESPN.com.
The 2018 Sun Belt Softball Championship is set for May 9-12 at Alfred and Helen Lamson Park on the campus of Louisiana. Just a week later, Louisiana will host the 2018 Sun Belt Baseball Championship at M.L. "Tigue" Moore Field at Russo Park from May 22-27.
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ESPN+, launching in April 2018, will be ESPN’s first-ever multisport, direct-to-consumer subscription streaming service. For just $4.99 a month, subscribers will be able to sign up or cancel at any time to receive thousands of additional live events, on-demand content and original programming not available on ESPN’s linear TV or digital networks. This includes MLB, NHL and MLS games, college sports, boxing, golf, tennis, international rugby, cricket, the entire library of award-winning 30 for 30 documentaries and more. Fans will access ESPN+ as an integrated part of a completely redesigned ESPN App. Already the leading sports app, the new ESPN App will give sports fans an unmatched, one-stop digital sports platform that provides easy, dynamic access to everything ESPN offers, anytime, anywhere across mobile and OTT platforms. With a richer, increasingly more personalized experience, the new ESPN App will curate all of ESPN’s incredible content into a content experience unique to each fan’s individual tastes.